By Scott Meacham Let’s raise our eyes and raise our goals Oklahoma. Christian Kanady is a fourth-generation Oklahoman. “My roots don’t touch any state besides this one,” he said. “Like most Oklahomans, I grew up steeped in this state’s sense of being both an underdog and a pioneer.” These days, Kanady is channeling that pioneeringRead more
The running joke each year at the BIO convention is just how far everyone in the OKBio contingent has to travel to get to know their fellow Oklahomans.
In many places, the emergence of this sector of the economy happened spontaneously. Take, for example, Silicon Valley. Or the growth of biotechnology businesses in the greater Boston area. Our state’s leaders understood that this sector was too important to Oklahoma’s long-term economic health (and the health of our population) to ignore. So they took some farsighted steps to try to catalyze the development of science and technology in Oklahoma.
From Staff Reports Copyright © 2015 The Oklahoma Publishing Co. i2E Inc. and Accele Venture Partners recently closed a $600,000 follow-on investment in Synereca Pharmaceuticals, a portfolio company of Accele Biopharma, an Oklahoma City-based biotechnology accelerator. With the most recent investment, Synereca has now received $2.5 million in funding to support its development of compoundsRead more
